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...recent conflict began last March when President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic deployed Serbian troops to crush ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army...
Milosevic agreed to remove his troops from the Albanian region and to end the Serbian attacks in the province of Kosovo. If the promise is fulfilled by Friday, NATO said it will call off airstrikes that it promised if the president did not comply with United Nations (U.N.) demands...
...world has stood by silently for the past year while the Serbian army has massacred Albanian civilians in the province of Kosovo. Detailed accounts of the horrific bloodshed, accompanied by graphic photographs, have been proliferated over the Web. Daily news reports from the region have been bounced off satellites and beamed into our living rooms. But, like countless generations before us facing similar tragedies, we have not answered the cry of a persecuted people...
...situation in Kosovo is admittedly complex. The struggle of the Albanian rebels against the governing Serb regime raises difficult questions about claims to self-determination and the integrity of nation-states. But one thing is clear: the brutal nature of the Serb crackdown under the leadership of President Slobodan Milosevic ought to be recorded as one more count on Milosevic's already existing war crime indictment...
...Milosevic is likely to wait until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...